Thursday, 6 October 2016

I've recently been seeing a few items that have captured my interest lately.

Fair Isle / Stranded knitting

The colours!!!

The patterns!!!

Oh my!!!

I have tried it before, but at that time I did not understand the skill level involved in such beautiful work. My projects turned out well and had a fair amount of wear. Sorry, but no photos to show that skill.

But I thought I would start again - as a beginner and actually try knitting the colours with two hands. One doing my normal 'throw' method and the other using 'continental' style.

Now normally I cannot do continental, but for some reason I find it relatively relaxing when using two yarns - go figure

So here are some of my latest creations - be kind please, still learning